St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-02-17
Ole Tateduniatr.
MENTAL HASH.
For Mental Confederation and Menta
Digestion.
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ZepGs Dane IA GO0d H0uSekeeptng.
Cato once said 81 cannot live will
a man whose palate has quicker sensa
tions than his heart" Well, / know &
good many women who have sucl
even for husbands if their own words
are true. l have heard them say
"When | want a special favor from
Mr.. Blank | always get him up good
dinner before preferring my request.
A good dinner does exert n benign in
fluence over many of the best of men,
but always feel rather sorry for the
wives who nave to appeal to a mans
stomach before his heart can he reach
ed. feel sorry too for the husbands
whose wives give them their sweetest
words and smiles in exchange for bon
nets or gloves or dresses or anything
else calculated to crafty feminine van
ity. Sincere affection does not depend
upon good dinners or fashionable APP
parel for its existence. Heaven help
the household haTing no better foun-
datiOn than this for its family affection.
Now about this matter of dress.
hate dandy or flop, but if ever there
was a man who liked well laundried
linen, neat ties, gloves and good
clothes generally, that man is Mr.. Ze-
greater satisfaction than to see Mrs.
Dane arrayed in handsome black
silk with bonnet, gloves, ribbons and
wraps of corresponding beauty and ell
egance. A man who don't like to see
his wife well dressed has no business
to marry, and the man who is miser-
able unless he and his wife can keep
up with the fashions has less business
to marry.
Mrs. Danes best black silk has been
turned twice now and its day of beau
ty and elegance is past. | haven't had
new overcOat for five winters and on
two occasions have had to substitute
ready made, "stOre clothes" for the
neat tailor made suits | like so well.
This sad condition of the family ward
robe results from o fixed resolve we
have made to always dress within
means and not to wear clothes for
which we cannot pay. Here, too, we
started out in our journey of life to-
gether fully resolved to have n house
of our own as soon as we could. We
have had babies and doctors bills and
all that, but we haven't gone in debt
and we've worn our old "duds" very
cheerfully and bravely, and we are Il
very happy pair of young people. This
insane desire to- Out-do all their friends
in the matter of dress has been the ru
inati0h-of many young couple. An
Dih0Tdinate love of dress makes sad
havoc with poor mans purse-and
his happiness too.
| have had 30 lay down my pen and
hold the baby while Mrs. Dane got the
youngsters bottle ready for him. These
bottle babies are considerable of
| INut hnI,y If
it be sound mentally and physically, is
a GOd-given blessing to its parents.
They should accept it as a heaven sent
gift and trust and do n noble work for
the Lord and for mankind in general
by rearing the child to Il good and use
full aud Christian manhood or woman
hood. | am not above helping my
wife take care of our babies. | do all
: the getting up ut night myself. Most
Omen ought to take this pleasing little
duty upon themselves, they are better
able to do it than nine out of ten
wives.
know a man who boasts that he
never got up night in his life for one
of his six children. His wife, pale,
rn-out little slip of Il creature looks
as though she hadn't had Il whole
nights rest since the first child was
born, | doubt if she has. This man
says he goes off and sleeps in II room
by himself when the ''yOung ones" are
troublesome. Women with similar
husbands have my sympathy.
1t would, | think, add in no small
- degree to the ''higher life" of every
household if the doors were securely
barred against all forms of gossip and
gOssipers. The ncighbOrhOOd gossip
is a dangerous person, underneath her
sweetest words is that under current
of malice and venom and falsehOOd
that makes her woman to be dread
ed. Her influence over yOnng people
and children is often more harmful
than most people suppose. Gossip is
bad food for children, L sometimes
think that there should be legislation
against these mischief makers.
Go out and spend an evening Occa-
sionally with some of your neighbOrs,
and let it be known that your latch
string is always hanging out for them,
invite a dozen OF more of them i'll some
evening and have IL ''sOciable sort of IL
time" Some simple refreshment will
cost little time or money. Little in
formal gatherings like these do much
toward creating good feeling and har-
mOny in neighbOrhOOd and-bOth
our babies are crying now, 1 must at
tend to one of them myself.